Women’s magazines are obsessed with helping us lose weight. Or this is what they would have us believe. In reality, they are obsessed with helping us diet. These might sound like the same thing. The magazines would surely claim that they are. In reality, these are opposing concepts. Diets don’t lead to weight loss, as… Read more »
I’m not a pet owner currently, and I doubt I will become one in the near future. It is not because I don’t like animals. But not only do pets require time (which I have little of to spare), many of my animal encounters have not been very conducive to developing a fondness for pets…. Read more »
My family never had dogs while I was growing up and as an adult I felt that owning one would be more work than its worth. My wife Linda, on the other hand, grew up with various family dogs and has always been a dog-lover. It wasn’t long after we were living together that the… Read more »
“My government is the world’s number one purveyor of violence.” Dr. Martin Luther King It is the privilege of this writer to have been assigned by our Editor to write an article introducing a new Columnist for The Voice. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Thane Heins, and wish him the best… Read more »
This is the second of three columns about Sacred Heart Community School in Regina, Saskatchewan. In Part Two, Principal Loretta Tetreault is amazed by the wisdom of her students. Definitely Worth a Second Look! Positive change was happening in the school and it was becoming a safe learning environment. Outside, in the schoolyard, there were… Read more »
Suicide or acne? Which would you pick? It’s an easy choice for most people, but those who suffer from severe forms of acne, may choose the more extreme of the two: suicide. In fact, sixty-six people taking the acne drug Accutane have committed suicide, and 1,373 others reported psychiatric side effects. If this is how… Read more »
VANCOUVER (CUP) — The B.C. government announced Monday it will no longer regulate college and university tuition fees, putting an end to a six-year legislated fee freeze and giving universities authority to increase fees to any level they wish. The province’s Advanced Education Minister Shirley Bond acknowledged that most students wanted the government to keep… Read more »
Little has been said of the U.S. sanctions against Iraq, or of the devastation that it has caused since the onset in 1991. Never were the tales of Iraqi women’s loss heard by the primetime news programs of this country. Nor did the tiny cancer-stricken bodies of Iraqi children ever appear on the front pages… Read more »
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT: Elections 2002 Due to changed personal circumstances, a candidate has withdrawn his name from the upcoming election. This means we now have only 9 candidates for the 9 positions, and all will be therefore elected by acclamation. The President will declare the slate of candidates elected on March 16, 2002. It… Read more »
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, and the man of science, into its paid wage-labourers. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, “Manifesto of the Communist Party” From the 19th century Educators and doctors… Read more »